SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animism, Polytheism, Theism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

The way, in which you perceive place, space can be very different. Immanent: inside the world in the here and now. Transcendent: the trippy far away beyond the here and now. Term used to refer to those practicing the monotheistic faiths, tracing their common origin to abraham. State of being on the edge, on the boundary or in between. Creating artificial divisions between two groups with the goal of making one group feel superior social constructs. You have no sense of linear time; you only follow certain events that happen throughout the year. Smallest scale of society, they hunt and gather, semi nomadic, based on what is ripe or what animal is traveling through. Larger communities, domestic animals, planters/domestication of plants, once one begins domestication, one becomes rooted instead of being equal to equal in the divine there is now a pecking order with a specialisation in the divine world.